''Aren't you guys lucky...I love yall and help you guys out from time to time?" asked Sharon ,laughing..

''Overjoyed.." said Duke..

''What you got?" asked Tyriq...

"Your boy Martin Decker.....Priveledged white boy....Parents Helen Decker, An Attorney, Martin Decker Jr., A Peditrician...Educated in the finest private and prep schools...Graduated from University of Penn, got an MBA from Columbia...and a J.D. from Columbia also... He's and Accountant and an Attorney...Worked for some pretty heavy hitters...Lobbyists, Fortune 500 corporations...Did the Wall Street thing...Met and fell hard for an exotic beauty named Marla...Marla Thomas...From the Philadelphia area.. After a short courtship , He relocated here to be with her...Only a year had passed and Marla Thomas married our own very wealthy and very connected Investment Banker...Phillip Harris...Decker was distraught...It is rumored that he and Marla continued to see each other...Rumored....You can thank your local FBI later.."laughed Sharon...

"That's it???...That's what Phillip Harris had that he wanted...Her!" said Carlotta...

''He went to a lot of trouble to get her....Do you know how much planning, how much money he had to put out just on the logistics alone to make this thing work?" said Sissy..

''Awwww Suki Suki Now.." she said and we all erupted in raucous laughter...

"Look I got this meeting to go to...Find Decker....Don't bother him, but shadow him....See where he goes..See if he and Marla Harris meet...She should be in town by now...The funeral is the day after tomorrow...Look for any chink in his armour...As perfect as this caper looks...I feel as though he slipped up somewhere..I just feel it...Find out if he did.." said Sissy...

"Duke...We need to take another look at that flight simulator...I remember something about them from when I took flying lessons.."said Angie..

''You took flying lessons?" I asked Angie.

"Yeah, a couple of years back.." said Angie..

''Wow, so much about you I don't know.."said Jimmy...

''And sooo much I'll love telling you Boo!" said Angie seductively...

"I'll meet you downstairs..." said Duke..

II-

Sissy usually hated COMSTAT Meetings....Most of the Lieutenants did....

Lieutenant Tragg embarrassed and dragged most of them through the coals....If they had any unsolved cases, if any of their detectives made any mistakes or got in any trouble...Lt. Tragg brought it up and made the Lieutenants feel like small children in front of The Deputy Of Operations , The Captains and even the Police Commissioner.....

Lord knows he had dragged Sissy through the coals when she had a big open case or cases.....And never congratulated her the next month when these cases were closed....

There was a new Police Commissioner...A female and she asked for Sissy to chair this month's meeting...

Lt. Tragg immediately tried to roughshod his way to the top and bring up the fact that the Phillip Harris Murder was open and had been open for 48 hours or more...

"You've got seven detectives....Seven very celebrated detectives, plus help from your friend who is what...The Deputy SAC of the FBI and you guys don't have a suspect yet?" he asked..

"We do have a suspect...We are building a case against said suspect now as I speak...When we get enough evidence....We'll make an arrest and only then.....Let's talk about some of your recent cases.." said Sissy, who pointed to a monitor...

.Lt. Tragg was led out of the Apartment complex in his boxer
shorts....It was all over the news that he had cornered a murder suspect
and been taken down...His gun among other things missing...and he was
found on the toilet, bound and gagged...

The Police Department was a buzz.....The embarrassment was tempered only by department wide laughter.....

The entire room of Lieutenants, Captains, The Deputy of Operations and the new Police Commissioner broke out into guffaws, loud guffaws of laughter...Lt. Tragg looked like he'd swallowed a can of paint!!!

Next was news footage of a two car crash....Two Police cruisers were destroyed in an attempt by Lieutenant Tragg to run down a suspect in another Lieutenant's case, Hers..Even after he had been ordered to stand down..This stunt, plus leaving the scene of the accident had gotten him a three week suspension...

The entire room of Lieutenants, Captains, The Deputy of Operations
and the new Police Commissioner broke out into guffaws, loud guffaws of
laughter...

"I'll just leave that there.." said Sissy ,who not only was enjoying herself ,but was now the hero of all of the Lieutenants, especially the ones ,who like her had been the targets of Lt. Tragg....

There was Lt. Tragg's persecution of Former States Attorney Oscar Meyerson....and rush to judgement arrest...

.A first year Detective, Ray Talbert had arrested Henry
Glover, the real rapist ..His DNA proved to be positive and he was charged and convicted
of the rape Oscar Meyerson had been accused of...

Once again...Lt. Tragg was the laughing stock of the Police Department...Outdone by a first year detective...

ADA Rockland Cambridge was livid...screaming for his badge...

Then there was the Rush to Judgement arrest of Ricky Beavers in a carjacking case.....in which he slept with the victim...

Sissy's own unit caught the real carjacker, who was part of a car jacking ring..

ADA Graham was livid with Lt. Tragg and his lack of professionalism...It caused him to lose the case...

"The lesson here....It's not wise to sleep with the victim...."said Sissy..

The entire room of Lieutenants, Captains, The Deputy of Operations and
the new Police Commissioner broke out into guffaws, loud guffaws of
laughter...

"I could go on....there is sooooooooooooooooo much more...but we'd be here all day..."said Sissy"AND THE REST OF THE WEEK!" yelled someone in the audience..

The entire room of Lieutenants, Captains, The Deputy of Operations and
the new Police Commissioner broke out into guffaws, loud guffaws of
laughter again.......

Lt. Tragg was as red as a beet....He stomped his foot and stormed out of the meeting...

Sissy and all of those lieutenants who had been humiliated by him and had to explain themselves in the past all felt vindicated...They usually hated going to COMSTAT....This month they loved it...They had never laughed this hard at one of these meetings...They were usually somber...This one..they actually enjoyed themselves...

Sissy did anyway!III-

But the world of murder goes on ...We did have an open case that was 48 hours old....Detectives Angela Belton-Barlow and Duke Baylor were back at Northeast Airport... We knew that Carlotta had been lured to a phony bar where she had been drugged...placed in a flight simulator and made to think she was flying to South Jersey and then taken right across the street to a long abandoned Apartment complex and made to think she was in Martin Decker's condo...thus supplying him with a perfect alibi....He and his partners did a good job of eliminating fingerprints and all forensic evidence...at all of these sites...No proof at all that Martin Dexter had ever been at these sites...

''Ang, what are you looking for?" asked Duke as he watched his partner and an Airport technician take apart the control panel of the flight simulator..

"When I took that flight class three years ago...I remembered something, Something that may break this case open."said Angie..

"I remember back then...You were still at I.A. ,you took the FBI course down at Quantico...Then took a flight course...What was up with that?" asked Duke..

"I was bored...I missed being with you guys and I didn't have a man....I just needed to do something.."said Angie..

"You got all of that out of your system now?" asked Duke..

''Pretty Much...I'm back with you guys ,doing the kind of investigations I wanted to do...Not dirty corrupt cops....and I got a husband in the meanwhile...I feel pretty good now of days..When I was framed for murder a few years back...Carlotta led the investigation and didn't let up until I was cleared...I would be remiss if I didn't do the same for her.."she said and smiled..

Duke always felt Angie was cute, even in the academy and a bit of a tomboy....He and Rico

both went through a period where they had crushes on her...Which is why they both looked out for her....Why they were always so close...

They were like siblings now...The three of them had come a long way.....

"I was right....Come here Duke, take a look...."said Angie...

'Well I'll be damned...This thing recorded them that night...There is Decker , his pilot and Top....And look, she's asleep.....

"Nasty bastard.....Decker has his hands up her skirt and he's squeezing her boobs...Carlotta would have killed him had she been awake..."scoffed Angie..

''Decker probably didn't know this thing recorded them...This film footage and Top's testimony is enough to put a tag on this guy..."said Duke..

''I think so..."said Angie..

IV-

At Headquarters, Detectives Sirena Pile, Antonio Hopkins and Deputy FBI SAC ,Sharon Hopkins
had hacked into the Street and Traffic Cam right outside Northeast Airport during the time table of the murder...

"Look right here...We have Martin Decker....alone....8:45 am...driving away from the Airport into the city...Now Carlotta thought she was on a helicopter headed toward South Jersey....She was somewhere in a deep sleep at the time.." said Sharon...

''And look....There is Decker and another man...Some hours later.." said Hop...

"Probably the ''Pilot" , see if you can scan in closer...get his license plate.."said Sirena....

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I am a native of Philadelphia PA, USA; attended Darby-Colwyn High School 1973-76; attended Shippensburg University and majored in Journalism 1976-81; charter member of Kappa Omega Chapter, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; served in US Air Force Reserves 1984-2006. I'm also a husband, father, and grandfather. My birthday is March 24th and my sun sign is Aries (The Ram). And, just so we're clear, let's establish from the door, Aries Rules! Okay?

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